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- From: jsburger@xmission.com (John S. Burger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Tape Drives
- Date: 21 Jan 96 15:14:55 +0500
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- On or about 21-Jan-96 08:25:09 Nick typed the following words about "Re: Tape
- Drives". My reply is thus...
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- N> In article <1524.6593T891T435@xmission.com>,
- N> John S. Burger <jsburger@xmission.com> wrote:
- >>
- >>On or about 20-Jan-96 08:49:53 Nick typed the following words about "Tape
- >>Drives". My reply is thus...
- >>
- >> N> I need a tape backup unit, and I'd like to know if one such as the
- >> N> MicroSolutions 'backpack' external model that hooks up to the paralle
- >> N> port would work on my A3000.
- >>
- >> N> And what sort of software is there to use it?
- >>
- >>PeeCee parallel port tape drives will not work on the Amiga. Nor will one
- >>that use the floppy controller. You need a SCSI tape drive, assuming you
- >>a SCSI controller in your A3000.
-
- N> Yep. I kinda figured those tape drives wouldn't work.
-
- >>How much data do you have to back up?
-
- N> Preferably around 1.5 gigs at a time. Want to be able to backup an
- N> entire drive at once.
-
- >> I use a ZIP drive with AmiBack and it
- >>works just great. With compression on I get about 135 megs per disk. Plus
- >>can use the ZIP for other things besides backup. Not so a tape drive and
- >>tapedrive is likely to cost more than a ZIP given that you can't use the
- >>PeeCee parallel/floppy drives.
-
- N> I was going to get a Zip drive about a month ago, before I also found out
- N> by calling at least 15 places, that there was no way I was going to get
- N> media for at least a month. By now it wouldn't have matterd. :/
-
-
- >>Of course get a SCSI ZIP. :<)
-
- N> I think now I'll head for the Jazz drive instead. Makes more sense in my
- N> case, and my guess is the media will be more easily available due to the
- N> extra expense of both machine and media.
-
- That is probably a good choice given the amount of data you have to backup.
- You can get it all on two JAZ carts. With the ZIP it would take around 12
- disks. OTOH, the media cost of the ZIP is a little more expensive in your case
- but the drive itself is much cheaper (ZIP disks are $14 in lots of 10). And
- available now.
-
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